american warships when mess somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world college chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china to. canada a country of promise and opportunity from my gram work is but with little protection from the state authorities many are forced to pay extortionate relocation phase and are saddled with heavy debts says it also no luck to come to canada here and lot of money in one brave group of indonesia and workers speak out and seek justice for their exploitation migrant dreams a witness documentary on al-jazeera.

armenia's opposition leader calls for a nationwide strike after parliament votes against him becoming the new prime minister. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera life and also coming up two suicide blasts in northeastern nigeria target worshipers at a mosque killing at least twenty seven people. as mourners bury the dead in kabul after monday's bombings a new u.s. report paints a bleak picture about afghanistan's security situation. a warning that breaks it could jeopardize peace in northern ireland. the armenian opposition leader and they called me and has called. for

a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after failing to be elected prime minister although he was the sole candidates push any and couldn't secure the necessary fifty three votes in parliament robin for us to walk a reports. this was the moment of collective disappointment or era fans republic square off the m.p.'s from the ruling republican party used their parliament tree majority to block the so-called people's candidate selection to prime minister by forty five votes to fifty five despite him being the only candidate. a huge gathering of supporters expected the vote would reflect the will of the armenian people. they followed the debate from the square or on radios and smart phones but republican m.p.'s spent knowing hours questioning nicko passion younes right to govern or his competence in a military crisis to the crowd's cheers the.

i don't partially on direct mr passion in just as yesterday today you have not convinced me i do not see you as the supreme commander not. when mr president lay to join the crowd elude we still buoyant. he'd think if we're talking about negotiations i want to officially say that that may only refer to the political funeral of the republican party mr push in yen has spearheaded the mass protests that led to the resignation of the veteran leader says sucks yan last month is promising to rid the poor country of corruption and poverty and bring about free and fair elections is now called for a general strike and further protests. and armenians are ready to return to the streets ahead of another vote expected next week in the who just loves you know the baggage of them is that only a few victory anyway we won because we are together now what nicole passion and

says we will do it in get what they wanted today but they vowed to continue this with his words if the office was a promise it was once a little bit of good for it's probably first a look at al-jazeera there are over. at least twenty seven people have been killed in a double bomb attack on a mosque in northeastern nigeria the first explosion went off during afternoon prayers in the movie and i don't know a state many people died in the second blast when attempting to get out of the building witnesses reported seeing a young man wearing a suicide vest entering the mosque with worshipers just. reports from nigeria as capital of. it happened as people were preparing for their afternoon prayers according to police it was a double bombing a twin bombing committed by two suicide bombers it happened in movie a critical town in the northeast simply because this was an area controlled by the

boko haram group in two thousand and fourteen for over a month and even if it was already liberated by the nature and army then attacks have not stopped since then in fact last year a similar attack happened in the same area where the book group also eight attacked a mosque which left at least fifty people dead another attack in another group of sibylla civilians was again perpetuated where the group left basically about twenty civilians dead now this comes at a very critical time to date the nigerian army launched its so-called intensified operation that will end the presence of the book group they said in this band within the next four months it happens also as the united states and the nigerian governments in fact we knew its commitment to end the presence of the group in the north east of nigeria china's foreign minister suit to arrive in north korea for a two day visit warney is the highest ranking chinese official to visit the north

in three years relationship and strained over a cause in chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong un works to improve ties with the south taking sturrock summit last week in march he was in beijing in his first overseas trip as leader that's going live out of beijing. brown is with us so it was have been so long since a chinese foreign minister was lost in north korea. well quite a few reasons really adrian but basically relations between poor and young and beijing have been at an all time low i mean this time a year ago north korea and china simply weren't on talking terms if there was a hotline between beijing and pyongyang it simply wasn't working president xi jinping was both enraged and humiliated by kim jong un's refusal to abide by u.n. resolutions his continued tests of nuclear weapons underground testing of nuclear

devices that really did in rage president xi jinping but things started to change really of course at the end of march when kim jong un made an unexpected visit to beijing he was invited all summoned here by president xi jinping and of course this visit came only a few days after it was announced that kim jong un and president from were going to hold face to face talks that is still likely to happen possibly at the end of may or the beginning of june so there is really a flurry of diplomatic activity going on right now and china doesn't want to be left out now the visit by wang ye as you said in introduction is the most high profile visit by a chinese government minister since two thousand and fifteen and china really wants to ensure i think that the momentum keeps moving and also china has been in the difficult position of enforcing sanctions against north korea basically most of

what north korea receives comes through or from china and china i think is hoping it reaches a stage soon where those sanctions can be eased because it's actually been hurting the chinese economy in areas like dandong which is the port city which is right on the border with north korea given the diplomatic activity the you spoke about the china feel that it's that it's left out how important is it for china to to get back into the game if you like. look it's very important because there is an awful lot going on right now we have this two days of talks between one year and his north korean counterpart in pyongyang and then next week we have trilateral talks that are due to take place in tokyo involving shinzo rb the south korean president as well as china's prime minister lee could chunk what

china wants to happen next is for there to be four party talks involving the united states china and the two koreas and i think that's what yang going is going to be pushing for a jury in his negotiations in the north korean capital adrian many thanks other serious china correspondent a dream brown there live in beijing. the un's nuclear watchdog is skeptical about the israeli prime minister's latest allegations regarding iran's nuclear program the i.a.e.a. says there were no credible indications of iranian attempts to develop nuclear weapons since two thousand and nine on monday benjamin netanyahu presented what he called conclusive proof that the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal was based on lies tatiana's rubbish the allegations center seven supports. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu may have unveiled secret files and computer disks describing them as conclusive proof that iran's nuclear program did exist this was an innocent looking compound it looks like

a dilapidated warehouse he may have shown a building in iran where he says israeli intelligence agencies had found their evidence but in vienna a former director of analysis for the international atomic energy agency isn't impressed or who speech is the dates are all missing everything he presented it appears to be related to developing nuclear weapons longer growers where there is nothing he presented about the war weapons program are there is news but netanyahu says the iranian program didn't end in two thousand and three it continued in secret the iran deal the nuclear issue is based on laws it's based on the randian law as any rain in deception one hundred thousand files right here. prove their log at the white house donald trump like what he saw and heard i think of anything what's happening today and

what's happened over the last little while and what we've learned. has really shown that i've been one hundred percent right iran's foreign minister dismissed the allegations saying in this tweet breaking the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again undeterred by cup tune fiasco at the u.n. general assembly you can only fool some of the people so many times whatever the words action could come soon trump will announce his decision on the iran deal by the twelfth of this month in a statement the i eighty a refers to a twenty fifteen report that found some activities in two thousand and three relevant to the development of a nuclear device but nothing after two thousand and nine britain and france have said the development from israel does not change their view in support of the deal and other signatories remain steadfastly against the way the u.s. appears to be leaning and drew simmons al-jazeera but as you heard the white house is backing israel's assertion that the iran deal was reached under false pretenses

can really help at reports. there are further indications that u.s. president donald trump intends to withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement this time at a white house press briefing with press secretary sarah sanders she admits that the white house did coordinate in advance of a press conference held by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and will critics argue there was nothing new in terms of information about iran's nuclear program in that and in that press conference the white house press secretary says it is further proof that iran was not truthful about the extent of its program in advance of signing the iran agreement the deal was made on a completely false pretense iran lied on the front end they were dishonest actors and so the deal that was made was made on things that weren't accurate i am we have a big problem with that given the white house contention that the agreement was signed under what the press secretary called false pretenses it is

a further indication that the united states is planning to withdraw from that agreement to limit iran's nuclear program the president has until may twelfth to make his decision potentially recertifying iran's compliance under the terms of the deal if he does not do that he may decide at that time to reimpose iran sanctions has been the leader hassan nasrallah is warning the conflict could break out between who he calls the real backers of the syrian war tensions been rising between has been a supporter iran and israel in recent months to run as warned that it will respond to what it called israeli aggression after the bombing of an arms depo in northern syria on sunday it's widely suspected that israel was behind the strike which reportedly killed twenty six people most of them iranians hillary mann leverett has served in the u.s. state department in the go see and with iran she says that israel is trying to carve out greater influence in the region but needs u.s. backing to do so. for prime minister netanyahu i think it is critically important

that israel be able to reassert reestablish its absolute military dominance and this is critically important for them in two areas in the nucular realm because iran cannot possibly have any kind of nuclear project that could check israeli ambitions and in syria they israelis are very concerned that they don't have absolute military dominance in syria because of iran's presence there so i think the israelis are very focused on going to war if necessary to reestablish their absolute military dominance the problem is that israel really can't do it by itself right now and so they're trying to go the united states to go to war for them there is a real divide and a back and forth within the trump administration and who can influence whom in the trump administration is critically important on a range of issues we see this in terms of saudi arabia we see this iran israel on a range of issues trump himself i don't think has any core principles he on one hand wants to get the united states out of the middle east and so he can then turn

to more cautious advisors like his defense secretary jim mattis but on the other hand he thinks that using highly militaristic rhetoric and even very provocative actions helps give him leverage and so in that area he's turning more and more to his new national security advisor john bolton who is extremely militaristic personality very close to prime minister netanyahu and so i think for trump he's he's turning to each of these advisers when he thinks that they can help him but he hasn't chosen one over the other at this point and israel's parliament has given the prime minister the power to declare war without full government approval politicians approved to change the law which previously required the whole cabinets to vote on a declaration of war now means the prime minister benjamin netanyahu will only need the approval of his defense minister. we're going to weather update next year on a house here and then the leaks documents that reveal how donald trump could be

questioned as part of the investigation into claims of russian collusion you know. how i once again we've got some more warm weather pushing into the east side of the u.s. role warmth as well will feel like last summer by the end of the week but we have got a little cloud making its way across the plains that will meet up cooler or tucking in behind and we get this line of cloud ad right and we are going to see some pretty lively storms pushing in over the next day or so the potential for some tornadic activity look at that for a temperature in d.c. thirty one degrees celsius so really heating up heiko on into thursday could be warmest still the cloud have the right will continue to slide is where across the midwest down across the plains down towards texas and again we are looking at quite

a rash of storms sunday want to watch out for localized flooding the possibility big foundry downpours and large hail to watch out for with those tow neda's behind that we could see a little more snow over the rockies farther west states fatah dry seattle not doing too badly temperature wise as well on as have around twenty one degrees that's about across the caribbean as per usual some lovely tropical sunshine coming through generally staying fine and dry over towards the last around ten days more and there's a lot of the showers from time to time across the greater antilles still in places because on into thursday but more sunshine than southeast. from planting forests with drones to surviving drought small funds al-jazeera has a wood winning environmental solutions program with tons have a link to a real job but. meeting the people communities and organizations addressing some of

the greatest manmade environmental problems threatening our planet. a new season of birthrights on al-jazeera. the top stories this hour on al-jazeera armenian opposition leader the call the shia has called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience to the ruling party blocked his bid to become prime minister shamir has urged his supporters to strike as well as to block the streets difficult protest. at least twenty seven people have been killed in an attack on

a mosque in movie town in northeastern nigeria two suicide bombers detonated devices during afternoon prayers no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. china's foreign minister set to arrive in north korea for a two day visit where he is the highest ranking chinese official to visit the north in three years relations been strained over causing chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program. a former trump lawyer says that special counsel robert mueller has raised the possibility that the president could face a subpoena to force him to consequence chin's as part of the russia investigation well as examining moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election which brought trump to power up the party call him reports from washington . special counsel robert muller wants to talk to the president as part of his negotiation he allegedly provided some of the questions to donald trump's lawyers that he wants to ask now leaked to the new york times it asks what the president

knew about his campaign team's communications with russians why he fired f.b.i. director james comey and what he knew about hacked democratic e-mails but it also points to a new area of investigation and ask quote what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including by paul mann afford to russia about potential assistance to the campaign the key word there outreach as into the campaign actively ask for russia's assistance another question raises new questions it asks after the resignations what efforts were made to reach out to mr flynn about seeking immunity or possible pardon basically when former national security advisor michael flynn resigned did you offer him a pardon to stay quiet potentially that could be a crime of obstructing justice flynn lied to the f.b.i. about communications he had with russia pled guilty and is cooperating with the investigation trump took to twitter to defend himself writing it would seem very

hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened witch hunt but that's not how this actually works if investigators are looking into a crime and someone tries to interfere with that investigation that in and of itself is a crime and a potentially impeachable offense regardless of what they find in the original investigation he also went on twitter to complain and say in part that it was disgraceful that the questions were leaked to the media no questions on collusion he wrote a couple of problems with that the new york times says the leak came from trump's side and asked for no collusion most of the questions are actually about collusion we've already seen plenty of evidence of collusion this is not the first piece but obviously if mr man apart was in fact talking to you. russians about the campaign that would put it at the very top of the trunk campaign that would be very close to mr trump himself this is a high stakes question for the president talk to moeller and why that's

a crime or sit down and refuse to answer questions that could have serious political repercussions but either way the clock is ticking he'll soon have to decide what to do. al-jazeera washington at least fifteen people have died in an attack on a church in the capital of central african republic protesters in marched towards the presidential palace carrying the body of a priest who was one of those killed the victims were among a crowd of hundreds who gathered for mass when a gunman opened fire and threw grenades and gunman and iraq have opened fire on unarmed civilians in a town north of baghdad killing several people security forces a searching the area in the town of tal mia it's unclear how many people died a witness told the reuters news agency that sixteen people have been killed and three would. mourners have been attending funerals for victims of monday's suicide bombings in the afghan capital kabul as afghan and global maurice's warn of

a rise in attacks a u.s. military report says the afghan government is continuing to lose ground to the taliban and eisel jennifer glass reports from kabul. special prayers for the dead this morning continues for the twenty five people killed in monday's twin bombing i saw attackers this is a scene being repeated in mosques all across the afghan capital on a hillside on the outskirts of the city sean mariah is being laid to rest one of nine journalists deliberately targeted in the attack especially in the leading the burial prayers says bloodshed is everywhere in afghanistan every day young people are being killed and afghans are tired of the ongoing conflict in all ten journalists were blown up on monday another was killed in eastern afghanistan it was the highest number of killings in a single day for the afghan media in an already dangerous environment media outlets were attacked that the buildings journalists have been attacked and now a group of media people in green zone of call the city were killed this

means that security situation is getting worse and you do is in a in a in a position that if it goes like this no one knows what will be happening. on the un says civilian deaths and injuries from suicide bombings and other attacks have doubled so far in the first quarter of this year. many afghans blame the government for failing to protect them. we are committed to protect our countrymen it's all a top priority as you know attacks like these take place in developed countries in the west and in countries which do not face all kinds of security problems one of the challenges that we all have is how to prevent sophisticated attacks that out of the latest report from the u.s. special inspector general has more bad news the american military watchdog says the afghan government controls fifty six percent of districts the rest are controlled

or contested by opposition groups taleban eisel and other anti-government fighters control twelve percent of the thirty five million population the resilient eisel and resurgent taliban on their spring offensive are facing thirty six thousand fewer afghan security forces this year no reasons being given for the significant fall that recruitment and retention of troops have been a problem for years afghanistan's human rights commission says more than nine thousand civilians have been killed or wounded this past year up some arts organizations expecting a higher number of casualties this year along with a rise in the number of attacks jennifer glass how does he or. france's president is on his first official trip to australia joined prime minister malcolm turnbull and collaboration those who lost their lives in the two world wars across trip will have a strong focus on the fences he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors he'll also discuss the iran nuclear deal and china's growing influence in the south pacific during his three day visit

. the u.k.'s bragg's it secretary is insisting that the british government won't agree to an e.u. proposal which could see northern ireland subject to different customs arrangements to the rest of the u.k. david davis says that the e.u. has wrongly interpreted agreement reached in december between london dublin brussels the plan allows for the republic of ireland and northern ireland which is in the u.k. to keep the same in you customs and trading regulations after briggs's preserving the current open border between the two northern ireland we clearly it's highly controversial we stand by the words used in the join in december but we think we don't agree with the commission's interpretation of that we think what they have proposed is something that in the words of the prime minister nobody could agree to infected a division of the kingdom down down the irish sea and we are still working on our

response to that a former member of the irish republican army has told al-jazeera that he fears that brings it could lead to a resumption of the armed conflicts in northern ireland his comments came as the european union's brigs at the grocery it was visiting the city of dariel londonderry as it's also known as the body is urging the british government to commit to staying in the customs union lawrence lee reports mr bonior is certainly putting the miles in he's been all over ireland and here he was to be business owners except in a city that source so much violence he had a chance to stress the importance of bricks it's not damaging the piece we're all going twenty five you should we be able to maintain. the belfast agreement it all down mentions. the city still has two names londonderry for the process and unionists a with the river derry for catholic irish nationalists who never took

down the signs of protest against what they saw as british occupation the ira force on these streets until recently it felt like a long time ago anybody under the age of thirty could have no real idea about just how bad things used to be here but clearly the fact that they built a peace bridge to join up the once divided communities tells you everything you need to know they had of course assume that the troubles were a thing of the past that they could never happen again but then again they haven't thought about bricks it's. the border with the republic of ireland is just a five minute drive out of the city and as of now you switch countries without any sign but we do have the present when thomas was growing up the road was blocked and the british forces were everywhere for republicans it was a constant reminder of a divided on islands just like a hard border would be off to bricks it would reinforce those protests and on the island of us starts really what it was rex is about. the physical manifestation of

it the face of the vision. phase in the face of having a void that the great good friday agreement before their dealing with the british government. you know the won't respect the agreements that they make under national agreements of the me the only way to go is to get or don't get away from us and the only way we can do that here is for a near. term it's friendly i'm right he drives a taxi now but he used to be an ira member and was in prison for fifteen. so do you reckon there are dissident republicans who might regards the reemergence of the whole border as an opportunity oh i think so yes yeah because i think they're failing to to shoot yeah yeah yeah because at the moment the at hank. no i don't have any time for them to balance the three. they're fine and for the hard he actually. set up with a recall operations but if they're set in the border they don't have to operate

from the north. and just fire and ice the problem and i think i don't like a cable of it now but there will be cable of it and they will be sorely tempted to do it commentators often say that bret's it could destabilize the peace agreement in ireland but don't explain how in reality it means that every single country lane on the border would be heavily policed and would cause enormous disruption to border communities which already have historical suspicion the brits and rex's in england talk all the time about taking back control people here it would be economically and socially designed stress and it is not an exaggeration to say it could lead to violence. does era. the renowned guitar company gibson is filing for bankruptcy after a series of unsuccessful acquisitions left it loaded with over one hundred billion dollars in debt legends like b.b. king chuck berry and jimmy page have been gibson aficionados through the decades

the company still sells more than a fifth of electric guitars worldwide and it will continue trading while trying to restructure. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories this hour on al jazeera i mean armenian opposition leader nicole push indian has called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked his bid to become prime minister and has urged his supporters to strike as well as block the streets and airports in protest. at least twenty seven people have been killed in the attack on a mosque in movie town in northeastern nigeria two suicide bombers detonated devices during afternoon prayers no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack china's foreign minister set to arrive in north korea for a two day visit is the highest ranking chinese official to visit the north in three

years relations have been strained over a cut in chinese exports to pyongyang as part of sanctions against its nuclear program it comes as north korea's leader kim jong un works to improve ties with neighboring countries in march he visited beijing in his first overseas trip as leader hizbollah chief is warning that conflict could break out between who he calls the real backers of the syrian war tensions been rising between his one a supporter iran and israel in recent months has warned that it will respond to what it called israeli aggression after the bombing of an arms depo in northern syria on sunday it suspected that israel was behind the strike which reportedly killed twenty six people most of them iranians france's president is on his first official trip to australia mccrone joint prime minister malcolm turnbull commemorating those who lost their lives in two world wars the crown strip will

have a strong focus on defense as he's travelling with a delegation of military and naval contractors. of course in australia says one of the catholic church's most senior officials is likely to face two separate trials related to sexual offenses cardinal george pell is the vatican treasurer and a former archbishop of melbourne tell us entered a not guilty plea it's expected that he'll appear again before the court in to us others the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after earthrise next. one specific indonesia's chittering river has become a toxic waste dump for textile factories that supply a global fashion chain one of the examined the human cost of the world's most polluted river on al-jazeera.